Iranian navy holds Iraqi fishing boats

Th commander of the Iraqi coasts guards Ali Hamad al-Musawi said on Thursday that the Iranian navy held five fishing boats and detained nine Iraqi fishermen off the coast of Fao peninsula to the far south of Iraq.

Al-Musawi indicated that the " five boats were seized in the area which is called Raas al-Beacha." It was difficult for him to specify whether the confiscation process took place in the Iranian regional waters. He said that the boats were taken to an Iranian port.